Stability Testing

Stability Testing

Stability Testing is the ability of the product to continue to function, over time and over its full range of use, without failing or causing failure.

It is a Non-Functional Testing Technique, with the aim to stress the software component to the maximum. In process, determine how well it performs under loads at acceptable levels, peak loads, loads generated in spikes, with a large number of volumes data to be processed, etc.

Stability Testing is done to check the efficiency of a developed product beyond normal operational capacity, often to a breakpoints. There is greater significance is on error handling, software reliability, robustness and scalability of a product under heavy load rather than checking the system behavior under normal circumstance

Stability Testing comes under Performance Testing –a technique that is performed to check some of the quality attributes of Software like stability, reliability, and availability.

This testing is used to determine how fast a system or sub-system performs under a particular workload.

Performance Testing has many types and stability testing is one of them.